Goodbye To All That

Robert Graves' classic memoir of the First World War, read by John le Carre.

Abridged in ten parts by Katrin Williams.

Genre

"Discussion and Talk

Arts

Culture and the Media

Factual

History

Station

Radio 3

Station

Radio 4

Series

Book at Bedtime

Duration

15 Minutes

Series

The Essay

Episodes

Episode

Title

FirstBroadcast

Comments

Genome: [r4 Bd=19930221]

A four-part series on the world's creative communities.

1: Deya. Simon Parkes travels to Mallorca to find the community which grew up around the poet Robert Graves , and which now includes musicians like Kevin Ayres , film actor Michael Douglas , and vacationing poets such as Brian Patten.

Producer David Prest

Genome: [r4 Bd=19930221]

Unknown: Simon Parkes

Unknown: Robert Graves

Unknown: Kevin Ayres

Unknown: Michael Douglas

Unknown: Brian Patten.

Producer: David Prest

Genome: [r4 Bd=19930228]

Simon Parkes explores four creative communities. 2: TriBeCa. An artificially created district in New

York, where loft living is the vogue and artists splash their canvases in former peanut warehouses. Producer David Prest

Genome: [r4 Bd=19930228]

Unknown: Simon Parkes

Producer: David Prest

Genome: [r4 Bd=19930307]

Simon Parkes explores four creative communities.

3: Stives

In the late 19th century artists started to go to

St Ives in Cornwall, attracted by the light, the sea air and the landscape. Today the town is preparing for the opening of the new Tate Gallerv St Ives. Producer David Prest

Genome: [r4 Bd=19930307]

Unknown: Simon Parkes

Unknown: St Ives

Unknown: Tate Gallerv St Ives.

Producer: David Prest

Genome: [r4 Bd=19930314]

Last of a four-part series looking at the world's creative communities. Calcutta

Simon Parkes travels to

India, where writers, poets and painters live among the poverty-stricken back streets.

Producer David Prest

Genome: [r4 Bd=19930314]

Producer: David Prest

01

Charterhouse

20020128

Robert Graves' classic memoir of the First World War, read by John le Carre.

Abridged in ten parts by Katrin Williams.

02

Becoming A Soldier

20020129

03

A Night In The Trenches

20020130

04

Letters Home

20020131

05

Out On Patrol In No Man

20020201

06

The Battle Of Loos

20020204

07

Triste La Guerre

20020205

Robert Graves's classic memoir of the First World War, read by John le Carre.

7: `Triste la guerre'.

Abridged in ten parts by Katrin William.

08

Old Gravy's Got It, All Right!

20020206

09

Marriage

20020207

10 LAST

Oxford

20020208

01

Elif Shafak

20140707

Taking Robert Graves' phrase Goodbye to All That as their starting point, five writers from countries involved in the First World War reflect on a turning point moment in their own histories and interpret the phrase with the ambiguity that Graves intended.

These five essays that have been curated by writer Lavinia Greenlaw to mark the centenary of the outbreak of World War One, as part of 14-18 Now, a major cultural programme across the United Kingdom.

Tonight, Elif Shafak contemplates a point of no return in the history of her native country, Turkey.

Written and read by Elif Shafak

Produced by Emma Harding

http://www.1418now.org.uk/.

02

Colm Toibin

20140708

Taking Robert Graves' phrase Goodbye to All That as their starting point, five writers from countries involved in the First World War reflect on a turning point moment in their own histories and interpret the phrase with the ambiguity that Graves intended.

These five essays that have been curated by writer Lavinia Greenlaw to mark the centenary of the outbreak of World War One, as part of 14-18 Now, a major cultural programme across the United Kingdom.

Tonight, Colm Toibin tells the story of Lady Gregory's fighter pilot son, whose death inspired one of Yeats' most famous poems, 'An Irish Airman Foresees His Death'.

Written and read by Colm Toibin

Produced by Emma Harding.

03

Daniel Kehlmann

20140709

Taking Robert Graves' phrase Goodbye to All That as their starting point, five writers from countries involved in the First World War reflect on a turning point moment in their own histories and interpret the phrase with the ambiguity that Graves intended.

These five essays that have been curated by writer Lavinia Greenlaw to mark the centenary of the outbreak of World War One, as part of 14-18 Now, a major cultural programme across the United Kingdom.

Episode Three: A Visit to the Magician

Tonight, German writer Daniel Kehlmann reflects on recent German history through the prism of a hypnotism show taking place in a central Berlin theatre.

Taking Robert Graves' phrase Goodbye to All That as their starting point, five writers from countries involved in the First World War reflect on a turning point moment in their own histories and interpret the phrase with the ambiguity that Graves intended.

These five essays that have been curated by writer Lavinia Greenlaw to mark the centenary of the outbreak of World War One, as part of 14-18 Now, a major cultural programme across the United Kingdom.

Taking Robert Graves' phrase Goodbye to All That as their starting point, five writers from countries involved in the First World War reflect on a turning point moment in their own histories and interpret the phrase with the ambiguity that Graves intended.

These five essays that have been curated by writer Lavinia Greenlaw to mark the centenary of the outbreak of World War One, as part of 14-18 Now, a major cultural programme across the United Kingdom.

Tonight, Jeanette Winterson examines her own sense that recent years have seen a turning point in British attitudes to the importance of the arts.

Written and read by Jeanette Winterson

Produced by Emma Harding.

Episodes

Episode

Title

FirstBroadcast

Comments

Genome: [r4 Bd=19930221]

A four-part series on the world's creative communities.

1: Deya. Simon Parkes travels to Mallorca to find the community which grew up around the poet Robert Graves , and which now includes musicians like Kevin Ayres , film actor Michael Douglas , and vacationing poets such as Brian Patten.

Producer David Prest

Genome: [r4 Bd=19930221]

Unknown: Simon Parkes

Unknown: Robert Graves

Unknown: Kevin Ayres

Unknown: Michael Douglas

Unknown: Brian Patten.

Producer: David Prest

Genome: [r4 Bd=19930228]

Simon Parkes explores four creative communities. 2: TriBeCa. An artificially created district in New

York, where loft living is the vogue and artists splash their canvases in former peanut warehouses. Producer David Prest

Genome: [r4 Bd=19930228]

Unknown: Simon Parkes

Producer: David Prest

Genome: [r4 Bd=19930307]

Simon Parkes explores four creative communities.

3: Stives

In the late 19th century artists started to go to

St Ives in Cornwall, attracted by the light, the sea air and the landscape. Today the town is preparing for the opening of the new Tate Gallerv St Ives. Producer David Prest

Genome: [r4 Bd=19930307]

Unknown: Simon Parkes

Unknown: St Ives

Unknown: Tate Gallerv St Ives.

Producer: David Prest

Genome: [r4 Bd=19930314]

Last of a four-part series looking at the world's creative communities. Calcutta

Simon Parkes travels to

India, where writers, poets and painters live among the poverty-stricken back streets.

Producer David Prest

Genome: [r4 Bd=19930314]

Producer: David Prest

01

Charterhouse

20020128

Robert Graves' classic memoir of the First World War, read by John le Carre.

Abridged in ten parts by Katrin Williams.

02

Becoming A Soldier

20020129

03

A Night In The Trenches

20020130

04

Letters Home

20020131

05

Out On Patrol In No Man

20020201

06

The Battle Of Loos

20020204

07

Triste La Guerre

20020205

Robert Graves's classic memoir of the First World War, read by John le Carre.

7: `Triste la guerre'.

Abridged in ten parts by Katrin William.

08

Old Gravy's Got It, All Right!

20020206

09

Marriage

20020207

10 LAST

Oxford

20020208

01

Elif Shafak

20140707

Taking Robert Graves' phrase Goodbye to All That as their starting point, five writers from countries involved in the First World War reflect on a turning point moment in their own histories and interpret the phrase with the ambiguity that Graves intended.

These five essays that have been curated by writer Lavinia Greenlaw to mark the centenary of the outbreak of World War One, as part of 14-18 Now, a major cultural programme across the United Kingdom.

Tonight, Elif Shafak contemplates a point of no return in the history of her native country, Turkey.

Written and read by Elif Shafak

Produced by Emma Harding

http://www.1418now.org.uk/.

02

Colm Toibin

20140708

Taking Robert Graves' phrase Goodbye to All That as their starting point, five writers from countries involved in the First World War reflect on a turning point moment in their own histories and interpret the phrase with the ambiguity that Graves intended.

These five essays that have been curated by writer Lavinia Greenlaw to mark the centenary of the outbreak of World War One, as part of 14-18 Now, a major cultural programme across the United Kingdom.

Tonight, Colm Toibin tells the story of Lady Gregory's fighter pilot son, whose death inspired one of Yeats' most famous poems, 'An Irish Airman Foresees His Death'.

Written and read by Colm Toibin

Produced by Emma Harding.

03

Daniel Kehlmann

20140709

Taking Robert Graves' phrase Goodbye to All That as their starting point, five writers from countries involved in the First World War reflect on a turning point moment in their own histories and interpret the phrase with the ambiguity that Graves intended.

These five essays that have been curated by writer Lavinia Greenlaw to mark the centenary of the outbreak of World War One, as part of 14-18 Now, a major cultural programme across the United Kingdom.

Episode Three: A Visit to the Magician

Tonight, German writer Daniel Kehlmann reflects on recent German history through the prism of a hypnotism show taking place in a central Berlin theatre.

Taking Robert Graves' phrase Goodbye to All That as their starting point, five writers from countries involved in the First World War reflect on a turning point moment in their own histories and interpret the phrase with the ambiguity that Graves intended.

These five essays that have been curated by writer Lavinia Greenlaw to mark the centenary of the outbreak of World War One, as part of 14-18 Now, a major cultural programme across the United Kingdom.

Taking Robert Graves' phrase Goodbye to All That as their starting point, five writers from countries involved in the First World War reflect on a turning point moment in their own histories and interpret the phrase with the ambiguity that Graves intended.

These five essays that have been curated by writer Lavinia Greenlaw to mark the centenary of the outbreak of World War One, as part of 14-18 Now, a major cultural programme across the United Kingdom.

Tonight, Jeanette Winterson examines her own sense that recent years have seen a turning point in British attitudes to the importance of the arts.